<p>Hey all, I'm just wondering how selective Dartmouth is compared to HYP, Duke, Cornell, Brown, etc.. Could somebody give me an idea? Someone once told me that Dartmouth couldn't cleanly be compared since they are adamant about looking for personality in applications. How true is that?</p>
<p>Umm I'd say that HYP and Brown are more selective than Dartmouth, but Cornell is less so. No idea about Duke. Probably about the same.</p>
<p>Actually Dartmouth is (so so slightly) more selective than Brown according to percentage rates and student stats (13.2% vs. 13.4%, higher SAT avg score by 20 points). Overall they are really about the same along with Columbia and Penn. All are less selective than HYP and IMO more selective than Cornell.</p>
<p>The OP is correct. Dartmouth is special and Dartmouth is different. My assessment is that one cannot fairly compare Dartmouth with any other Ivy--other than Brown, and Brown & Dartmouth, although LAC like, are opposites in terms of politics and regarding students that each school attracts.</p>
<p>Not really. I know countless people who chose between the two. Politically they arent that far apart (Dartmouth is a liberal school) and both tend to cater to "laid back, friendly" types.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is well known as the most conservative school in the Ivy League, while Brown and Columbia are typically labeled as the most liberal. Dartmouth students tend to be similiar to those at Colgate & Bucknell Universities.</p>
<p>You figure maybe you ought to rely on the word of someone who's graduated from there in the past five years over a decades-old stereotype?</p>
<p>Dartmouth admissions openly refers to Dartmouth College as having a country club atmosphere. Anyone asserting that Dartmouth is as liberal as Brown or Columbia is using the term "liberal" in a different fashion than most. Being the "most conservative" school in the Ivy League is not the same as being a Southern Baptist conservative enclave as this comparison is being used in a relative sense.(i.e. Dartmouth in relation to the other Ivy schools.)</p>
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<p>I thought Dartmouth's acceptance rate was 15.2%. Not that that's a huge difference, but I don't think there's been a year in the last 10 where Dartmouth's acceptance rate was actually lower than that of Brown. </p>
<p>Dartmouth, Colgate, Bucknell are all more liberal than they used to be and on the whole would be considered varying degrees of liberal, but to imply they're in the same ballpark as Brown seems misleading to me. I'm sure they're plenty deciding between Dartmouth and Brown, but that's different than saying the campus environment is similar; in fact, that is probably the exact distinctions they are deciding between.</p>
<p>15.3% was the year before. Dartmouth was below Brown this year, last year it was the opposite. They've been neck and neck for a few years.</p>
<p>Dartmouth</a> News - From its largest pool of applicants for undergraduate admissions to date, Dartmouth invites 2,190 to join the Class of 2012- 03/31/08
Dartmouth</a> College 2011</p>
<p>I wouldn't put Dartmouth in the same bucket as Bucknell and Colgate. In 2000 a campus poll had 77% for Gore or Nadar, in 2004 it was 85% Kerry. There is a libertarian campus voice, but Dartmouth is not even close to being conservative.</p>
<p>There is a difference between not voting for Bush and being liberal. What were Dartmouth in last two elections before that? Having been at Colgate and Dartmouth, I didn't see a material difference in people's politics. I seriously doubt at this point that people at Bucknell are coming out in droves as supporters of Bush.</p>
<p>There are no conservative Ivy League schools. Get a grip.
The most liberal (leftist) are Yale (politics) and Brown (lifestyle). Columbia students tend to be pre-professional.
That said, all eight schools tend to have student bodies that are very much alike. The similarities overwhelm the differences.</p>
<p>Gellino then why was Dartmouth overwhelmingly in favor of Gore/ Nadar in 2000? ( I was wrong it was 72% Gore/ Nadar in 2000, it went up to 85 kerry in 2004, my guess is the D poll coming out will have 85% Obama) No one knew how amazingly awful the Bush presidency would be back then. You can also look at Diversity differences. In 1995 Dartmouth was 20% minority and last (along with Princeton) among the Ivies. Now its approaching 35% and more diverse than have the Ivies including Brown.</p>
<p>TheDartmouth.com</a> | Gore wins landslide victory in campus poll</p>
<p>Totally agree with Danas. At this point its a lifestyle issue with the Ivies. Overall you're going to get 85%+ democrats/ liberals at all of them.</p>
<p>People, for some reason, have not realized that Dartmouth is hardly the same school as it was in the 80s. It definitely has less of a "hipster" feel than Brown, but its not a conservative school in the least. Not even close...</p>
<p>Alot of kids from my sons' school applied to D along with other ivies, Bucknell and Cornell. For this set of kids, I would put D as more selective than all but HPY. But that is for this particular situation over a 10 year period.</p>
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<p>I don't doubt it; especially having been there during that era, but why do you think Colgate and Bucknell are any different?</p>